Longreads

July 07, 1996|By Mike Klingaman | Mike Klingaman,SUN STAFFThey outpitched Cy Young, outfoxed Connie Mack and out-jawed the umpires, who were cowed by the in-your-face antics of the Orioles, most of…

PLUS: The Petition to Save the Post Office Now AND: The American Post Office's Painted History Published in the February 2013 issue The letter is mailed from Gold Hill, Oregon. The eleven hundred…

President Obama saw it as a “50–50” proposition. Admiral Bill McRaven, mission commander, knew something would go wrong. So how did the raid that killed bin Laden get green-lighted? In an adaptation…

August 13, 2011 | By Julie Scharper and Justin Fenton, The Baltimore Sun Steven Wehner had overcome dyslexia, a stint in jail on drug charges and the loss of his repair shop on Martha's Vineyard.…

Bob Dylan looks bored. It's May 1965 and he's slumped in an armchair at the Savoy hotel in London. The camera filming the documentary Don't Look Back, about Dylan's tour, turns away – Dylan's…

Urbanite's Top Longreads of 2011 Posted by Andrew Zaleski on Thu, Dec 29, 2011 at 12:53 PM This coming year, 2012, will mark the ninth year that Urbanite has been in publication. As publisher Tracy…

The massive twelve-wheeled demolition truck rumbles down the street and lures the neighbors out to gripe. It's not that the truck or the driver, Lorenzo Coney, are unwelcome. The people here just…

Frank Shorter is the father of the modern running boom. An enduringly popular speaker, he spins a captivating narrative about winning the 1972 Olympic Marathon. The story he hasn't told is the dark truth about his own father. "I explained how I tried to anticipate my father's moods and movements, and about the enormous daily effort it took us kids to keep out of his way. I talked about searching for an outlet for my fear and anger, and finding it in running. I admitted that I ran to escape. I described the guilt I felt for not being able to save the rest of my family."